Boats Storytime

Storytime for 1 to 3 year olds: 

• Opening - Skinnamarink (from Car Songs: Songs to Sing Anywhere by Dennis Buck at Kimbo), Sticky Sticky Bubblegum
• Book #1 – I'm Mighty by Kate and Jim McMullan
• Stand-up Activity - Here Is the Sea (fingerplay I found somewhere)

Here is the sea, the wavy sea

Here is my boat

And here is me

All of the fishes

Down below

Wiggle their tails

And away they go

• Bridge - Open Shut Them (fingerplay)

Open, shut them
(open and close hands)
Open, shut them
Give a little clap (clap)
Open, shut them
Open, shut them
Put them in your lap
(put hands in lap)

Creep them, creep them
Under your chin
(creep fingers up chest)
Open your mouth, but don't put them in
(do as words say)

Open, shut them
Open, shut them
Give a little clap
Open shut them
Open shut them
Put them in your lap 

• Book #2 - Boats for Bedtime by Olga Litowinsky, illustrated by Melanie Hope Greenberg
• Activity – "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" action song from Songs for Wiggleworms by Old Town School of Folk Music

• Closing - Use scarves to the song "Water, Wind and World" from The Second Line: Scarf Activity Songs by Johnette Downing
• Craft – Glue sails to boat bottoms